EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
16.04.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
25000USD $ 25 000
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CHRISTIE'S| Auctioneer | CHRISTIE'S |
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| Event location | United Kingdom, London |
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ID 1404858
Lot 59 | EDGAR DEGAS (1834-1917)
Estimate value
$ 25 000 – 35 000
Actresses in Their Dressing Rooms
the original copper printing plate, cancelled, 1879-1880, backed with another copper plate with a fragment of an etching by another hand, with a proof envelope impression from the cancelled plate, on wove paper, without watermark
Overall (plate): 6 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. (163 x 214 mm.)
Proof Envelope (folded): 6 ¾ x 8 7/8 in. (170 x 225 mm.)
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939), Paris; possibly acquired from the artist circa 1910.
Henri Petiet (1894-1980), Paris; acquired from the estate of the above.
A. Martinez, Cannes.
With Frank Richard Perls (1910-1975), New York.
With Heinz Berggruen (1914-2007); acquired from the above.
Samuel Josefowitz (1921-2015); presumably acquired from the above.
Literature
see Delteil 28; Reed & Shapiro 50
B. S. Shapiro, S. W. Reed, Edgar Degas: The Painter as Printmaker, exh. cat., Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and London, Hayward Gallery, 1984, p. 264-66 (this plate cited; not illustrated).
| Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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| Applied technique: | Etching |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Prints & Multiples, Plates |
| Artist: | Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917) |
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| Applied technique: | Etching |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Impressionism |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Prints & Multiples, Plates |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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